Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan by Farris, William Wayne - 2009

Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 137 p. w/ chapter endnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed discussion, using demographics exensively, that looks at daily life in Japan between 700 and 1150 a.d., a time of high mortality due to disease, famine, and war. It also begat chances in food supply and peace making that bore fruit in raising Japan's population later in the medival period .